Cloverfield Discussion

I don't get to see many movies with a 4 month old in the house, but I managed to escape to see Cloverfield. Stop reading immediately if you don't want spoilers. It's Blair Witch's first person camera work, applied to a small (for the genre) budget monster movie. The monster is cool. The little monsters are cool. The acting is sometimes good, sometimes awkward. The action is often great and very intense. And it will undoubtedly be the most hyped movie of 2008 until the spring blockbusters arrive. I really enjoyed the movie, but I'm posting this so you guys can have a place to talk amongst yourselves about this movie. Groundbreaking movie-making or just hype-making? I'm not sure. I'm also not sure my skull can handle watching it again- that jerky camera action gave me a headache. (Also, there was a Star Trek teaser trailer attached, and I'm almost ashamed to admit that I want it so badly it made me hurt. Please Abrams, don't screw it up)

/. Movie Reviews ? Can I getta 'paid shill' ?

[ohgood]

You know, it's nice when 50,000 people from /. help a torrent out, but a blair witch wannabe ? What's that, like a piece of nothing aspiring to be a piece of shit ?

Parasite Noise?

[carterhawk001]

Was it just me, or did the parasites make the most awesome gobbling noise? I would pay for a ringtone of that. I mean, I'll make my own in audacity as soon as I have a copy of the sound, but I would pay for it if I could today.

Star Trek teaser??

[teslar]

Also, there was a Star Trek teaser trailer attached

There was a Star Trek teaser attached and all you want to talk about is Blair Witch meets small-budget-monster movie? You must be new here.

Re:Star Trek teaser??

[RobBebop]

Posted by CmdrTaco

You must be new here.

This takes that joke to a whole new level. I hope this isn't a sign of the apocalypse. I'm gonna go to my bomb shelter now, just in case.

Re:Very good, very original

[Zocalo]

One caveat about the movie: bring Dramamine. Lots of it. I had two friends with me who missed the whole second half of the movie because they couldn't look at the screen.

Or just wait a while and download a CAM from BitTorrent; sooner or later someone's going to be swaying with the on-screen motion so smoothly that there will be a rock steady capture in DIVX format. :)

Re:You must be a Slashdot weenie...

[halivar]

Real guys stop by the local coffeehouse to pick up their favorite drinks and walk over to the bookstore to browse through the books while discussing the merits of the movie.

Which is why you're here instead of there.

City Dwellwers

[mlingojones]

Why do these monsters always seem to appear in cities? There's been so many movie monsters popping up in New York, Tokyo... eventually, probability dictates that one should pop up in the middle of nowhere. That's what my monster movie's gonna be about: a giant monster that pops up in the middle of Kansas. It'll terrorize a corn field and like two farmers.

Re:Jumper

[Symbolis]

I've not seen it, yet, but if the sketchy thing I saw(on wikipedia?) was accurate:

We called it Sin. ...it even has Sin Spawn/Scales!

Re:City Dwellwers

[Veramocor]

I think they called that movie 'Signs'.

Re:City Dwellwers

[smellotron]

It'll terrorize a corn field and like two farmers.

Was that an errant "like"? Or did you really mean to say that a giant monster is going to befriend two farmers in the middle of Kansas?

cloverfield

[fredex]

Sounds like the internal code-name for a new Intel processor chip.

Re:The 9/11 aspect

[TClevenger]

You have ANY disaster set in New York and you'll have comparisons to 9/11.

No kidding. Now the sight of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man stepping on that church causes me to hyperventilate.

Re:Name the Damn thing

[Lord Apathy]

I'm nominating Shub-Niggurath

I can live with that but Abrams has already said there is no Lovecraft tie in. Thank god it wasn't Godzilla.

Offtopic Advice: I know there are some geeks out there that plan to have kids and some of you already do, CmdTaco. Pay attention because I'm about to give you some advice that you won't find in any blog or manual. When you buy kiddy shampoo make sure that you can tell what it is from feel alone. Make sure that when you are doing that blind shower grope the kiddypoo feels different from your conditioner. Trust me on this, you will thank me.

My fucking hair now smells like strawberry but on the upside it does have a nice bounce.

Re:The keyword in that diatribe was 'hyped'...

[toleraen]

My head still hurts from the shaking camera!

Would you say it's better or worse than the last few Bourne movies, both in terms of plain shakiness and how badly it confuses the scene?

Re:You must be a Slashdot weenie...

[g8oz]

Wait, are you calling latte-sipping bookstore browsers masculine?

How is the weather in San Francisco this time of year?

Re:City Dwellwers

[Blakey Rat]

Population density = terror.

My question has always been: how come giant monsters are never mammals? Barring King Kong, I guess. the Japanese have several dinosaurs, a lobster, robots, and even the personification of smog. I'd like to see like a giant tiger-looking monster that's 80' tall eating people.

Re:I'm not sure

[Anonymous Coward]

But I think my most concern is fuck the people. I want see the same story from the army point of view.

Then you have your pick of every other fucking monster movie out there. Enjoy.

Re:The keyword in that diatribe was 'hyped'...

[grub]

Even low end camcorders have some kind of picture stability on them

So I should wait for a CAM to be released? ;)

Re:I liked it

[MobileTatsu-NJG]

+10 insightful.

How does a girl who survives getting impaled (already sketchy) manage to survive a helicopter crash?

I've seen lots of movies like that, but usually with poor lighting and an insane credit card charge.

Re:City Dwellwers

[sacrilicious]

Was that an errant "like"? Or did you really mean to say that a giant monster is going to befriend two farmers in the middle of Kansas?

Given that it's two farmers in the middle of Kansas, we are of course talking about the biblical sense of liking them. "And then verily did he like them again..."

Re:Movie watching for those with very young childr

[bataras]

15 years later that child in therapy...

"Every time a movie trailer comes on or I go past a theater, I have to go shopping. I can't figure it... my credit cards are maxed..."

Re:City Dwellwers

[Anonymous Coward]

It's because, according to the SciFi channel, all of the smaller towns are already infested with small monsters and bad acting.

Re:I'm not sure

[NormalVisual]

Then why did the military get all riled up when they figured out she was bitten, and not just injured?

Because she was then considered to be a biohazard and was being segregated from everyone else as quickly as possible. At the very least, I'd guess they wanted to prevent Marlena McNuggets from getting all over anyone that wasn't wearing a hazard suit.

Re:I'm not sure

[Anonymous Coward]

I read your comment with the Comic Book Guy's voice. Perfect.

Re:I'm not sure

[Dun Malg]

Indeed, the most important traits of porno cams are:
1) lightweight
2) light attached
3) handle on top so you can grab it and stick it in places where the "action" is most visible

"You burn my nuts with that light one more time and I'm kicking your ass!"

Other SLJ auditions...

[Skevin]

...where he didn't make the cut:

"I've had it with all these motherfucking zombies in this motherfucking mall!"
"I've had it with all these motherfucking wizards from this motherfucking school!"
"I've had it with all these motherfucking mutants from this motherfucking school!"
"I've had it with all these motherfucking hobbits with this motherfucking Ring!"
"I've had it with all these motherfucking Agents in this motherfucking virtual reality!"
"I've had it with all these motherfucking androids from motherfucking Skynet!"
"I've had it with all these motherfucking icebergs in this motherfucking ship!"
"I've had it with all these motherfucking dinosaurs on this motherfucking island!"
"I've had it with all these motherfucking talking pigs in this motherfucking farm!"

Lines I would have paid good money to hear:
"I've had it with all these motherfucking Sith in this motherfucking galaxy!"
"I've had it with all these motherfucking wedding rehearsals with this motherfucking piano!"
"I've had it with all these motherfucking ghosts in this motherfucking hotel room!"

But we know he's hit the bottom of the barrel if Uwe Boll ever rejects him despite the line:
"I've had it with all these motherfucking goombahs in this motherfucking sewer!"

Solomon

Re:Other SLJ auditions...

[Kalriath]

That... comedy gold that. Fucking awesome.